Sidi Daoud ( سيدي داود ) is a Tunisian village located at 37 ° 01 'north, 10 ° 55 'east on the northeast end of the peninsula of Cap Bon , about ten kilometers from the city of El Haouaria. The village is erected on the remains of an ancient Roman city known as Missua and which had economic relations with

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. It has developed around two poles: the

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of Sidi Daoud Ennoubi and a fishing port. Its economic activity is mainly oriented towards seasonal fishing for bluefin tuna, with quite traditional methods practiced since

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.Présentation de la ville de Sidi Daoud
The site houses a wind farm contributing to the production of electric power.

History

During the Roman Empire Sidi Daoud was a Roman town called Missua, which was of the Roman province of

Africa Proconsulare Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Alg ...

. There was a Christian bishopric in the town, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 231. We know two bishops, Irondino, exiled by the Vandal king Huneric in 484, and Servusdei, who witnessed the Carthaginian council of 525. Today the diocese survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is

Paul Vollmar Paul Vollmar (11 November 1934 – 2 May 2021) was a German-born Swiss Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop. Vollmar was born in Überlingen am Bodensee, Germany and ordained to the priesthood in 1964. He served as titular bishop of ''Missau'' an ...

, of Chur.

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History

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